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Fragments of „Nature” 
                                                                                                                                   

Some materials have the possibility to look exactly like natural although they’re syntethic.
Through our impact on an entity it could transform into a different one. Could a synthetic material look like as a natural one, or how could a natural material as a synthetic one?
This project is based on the reciprocity of different elements, like paper, plaster „rocks”, black and blue coloured wooden sticks. It’s some kind of a game with contrasting substances. Do these entities have a connection or our knowledge about them generates these relations?
The different elements are only fragments, they don’t exist without each other, without the context they loose their meaning. All the materials used in the installation are somehow artificial, but together they are in harmony, there is nothing bizarre or extraordinary about them, but in a way, they still create a somehow uncomfortable atmosphere. Through this uncomfortable harmony the whole installation becomes absurd.
Some fragments are deliberately made, some are errors, some are by-products of the process. Do we need to think about the by-products? Until which point can we use freely but intentionally these  blindly „produced” mistakes, errors , these produced fragments of „Nature”?
 

Possibilities of a sheet of Paper
                      
The starting point of my project  is a sheet of Paper because of it’s simplicity.
An empty Paper could tell us a story or also contain information of any kind.
The creased Paper in itself means an action. An action made by humans which represents a cause and an effect. Both of them could be negative or positive, it could lead us to the question of judgement.
Through the experimentation with different materials the paper becomes more and more artificial.
This lead me to the questions:

At which point becomes a material artificial?
What are the possibilities of a usual and common object?
Could an effect easily be considered as positive or as something negative?

Through the process of experimentation everything changes, the paper becomes more and more synthetic and loose it’s caractheristics.
The plaster „paper” negative and positive seems more like a stone, though their surface is slightly different. The sheet made out of latex reminds us of skin. 
But the question is still there, at which point isn’t it a sheet of paper anymore?

Identities of a place 

The starting point of my project was the connection between human bodies and a space. In this case especially a public space.
The installation itself contain different parts. I wanted to make it personal, that is why I used the cloth hanger and the chair, and also a notebook in which the definition of public space (according to wikipedia) can be read moreover different expression-definitions which could be connected to ’public space’ I wanted to illustrate our strange, two sided connection with a city or a space.

I took photos of a chair, a simple chair on the street. The chair is symbolic,  not only it can be found in many cases during art history (Joseph Kosuth – One and three chairs), but it represents ’home’ in this case, it represents the private space. Who would actually sit on a chair on the street?
It’s also in connection with the question: How do we actually use a place?
A piece of furniture on the street doesn’t mean much, but it could represent a demonstration, a certain connection, isolation, freedom, belonging etc...
Is it possible to get to know a whole city? To belong to a city? What does it mean to belong somewhere? How can I be isolated in an open place, is there anyone who can’t belong to a communal space?
These photos could represent the lack of human action in a public space. My actual intention was that people might gonna sit on the chair. The drawn blue parts represent the act of using a chair, which was made by no one.

I asked almost one hundred people the same question on the street : What is the first expression that comes to your mind, when you think about a public space?

Some of them gave me short and easy answers, some of them talked with me for hours, but in the end I had a bunch of words to use as a part of the installation. My intention was to gather as many different viewpoints on the street as I could. I later used these sentences and words, wrote them on the chair-photos. Not all of them can be easily read, just as we cannot relate to all the places in the world and we cannot understand everything, but I needed to ask myself, what is a ’public space’ really? Can we create an accurate definition? Does a certain place have different identities?
 

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